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The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Professor Titti Mattsson as the new holder of the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundation Professorship in Memory of Samuel Pufendorf for the period 2025-2028. The professorship is appointed for four years by the Vice-Chancellor to a professor at Lund University in the subjects of economics, political philosophy and law in the spirit of Pufendorf. Titti Mattsson i

https://www.law.lu.se/article/titti-mattsson-named-pufendorf-endowed-chair - 2026-07-27

With the Research Data Office, the University is working to improve support for researchers in the management of research data. Each faculty now has a data steward to assist researchers in their work with research data.The new Research Data Office will better support researchers in managing their research data according to legal requirements and security standards. This is achieved through technic

https://www.law.lu.se/article/elin-thunell-and-jon-eriksen-are-faculty-laws-data-stewards - 2026-07-27

Astronomdagarna is a conference that gathers astronomers from across Sweden. It was held in Lund during October 2-4, 2024, with over 120 people attending.  The national conference Astronomdagarna is held every other year, with different universities taking turns on hosting the conference.  Back in 2022 the Astronomdagarna conference was held in Gothenburg.  Last time the conference was here in Lun

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/astronomdagarna-2024 - 2026-07-27

A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, as researchers prepare to map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, 4MOST – the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope – collects spectra, that

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2026-07-27

Dr. Stephan Rosswog, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Hamburg Observatory, visited the Lund Observatory and gave a talk titled "Neutron star mergers as laboratories for extreme physics" This seminar was a joint Lund Observatory Seminar & Rydberg Seminar series.  

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/neutron-star-mergers-laboratories-extreme-physics - 2026-07-27

In a recent paper, Nicholas Borsato, along with collaborators Jens Hoeijmakers, Bibiana Prinoth, Brian Thorsbro, and Rebecca Forsberg, provides insightful research on the complex atmospheric composition of the exoplanet KELT-9b. The team captured the exoplanet's spectra during transit, revealing numerous elements within its atmosphere.This study not only verifies the presence of previously known e

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/terbium-among-heavy-elements-discovered-atmosphere-exoplanet-kelt-9b - 2026-07-27

The European Space Agency Buissness Incubator Center (ESA BIC) hosted a meet-and-greet event at Ideon on April 25th.  Local professionals got to know more about ESA BIC and about a few of the ongoing space projects in Lund. This was well received by the people attending the event, and rumor has it that ESA BIC will arrange more such events in the future. 

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/meet-and-greet-esa-bic - 2026-07-27

Astronomers invited members of the public to look at the spring skies through the teaching telescopes. There are a number of both historical and modern telescopes at Lund Observatory.  Usually these are used for teaching purposes but every now and then the astronomers decide to stay at work late into the evening in order to give members of the public the chance for some stargazing. This spring thr

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/stargazing - 2026-07-27

  There is so much more to space than just rocket science. So said Deborah Lygonis, CEO Friendbase AB and Investor Relations, Innovatum, at a national hybrid lunch meeting titled ”The Future of the Space Industry”, which was jointly organised by ESA BIC and Women In Space Sweden (WISS) on May the fourth. She went on to explain how the space industry loosly divides into ’Upstream’ (including rocket

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/future-space-industry - 2026-07-27

 Several members of the Lund Observatory network gathered in Lundmarkssalen today to listen to Göran Östlins from Stockholm University give a seminar titled: "SELTIC, Swedish engagement in ELT instrumentation".SELTIC is a consortium developing instruments, such as MOSAIC and ANDES, for ESOs ELT - which is currently under construction and scheduled for first light in 2028.This was the first seminar

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/swedish-engagement-elt-instrumentation-development - 2026-07-27

The annual Space Research School was organized here in late August by Astronomic Youth (Astronomisk Ungdom) in collaboration with Lund Observatory. Attending this year's Space Research School were twenty intelligent, motivated and space-interested high school students from across Sweden.   During their 10 days in Lund the group of high school students attended several lectures given by university

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/rfs-2023 - 2026-07-27

Prof. Joe Liske from Hamburg University, Germany, visited the Lund Observatory network on September 28th 2023 and gave a talk titled "Cosmological Conundrums". This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/cosmological-conundrums - 2026-07-27

Prof. Stephen Mojzsis from the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK) in Budapest, Hungary, visited the Lund Observatory Network and gave a talk titled "Galactic chemical evolution expressed in rocky exoplanet geodynamics" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.  

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/galactic-chemical-evolution-expressed-rocky-exoplanet-geodynamics - 2026-07-27

Dr. Chiara Paleari from the Department of Geology gave a Lund Observatory Seminar titled "The search for extreme solar particle storms in polar ice cores" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.  

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/search-extreme-solar-particle-storms-polar-ice-cores - 2026-07-27

Assistant professor Ása Skúladóttir from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy, gave a seminar titled "Digging into dwarf galaxies" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series. 

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/digging-dwarf-galaxies - 2026-07-27

Allmänheten har möjlighet att se detaljplanen och lämna synpunkter till slutet av augusti. Som en del av fakultetens lokalprojekt Campus Paradis planeras ett nytt samhällsvetenskapligt centrum i kvarteret Paradis. Det nya samhällsvetenskapliga centrat ska enligt plan omfatta nuvarande hus M och O samt en nybyggnad på parkeringen. Detaljplanen för byggnaden är nu ute på samråd, vilket innebär att a

https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/detaljplan-samhallsvetenskapligt-centrum-pa-samrad - 2026-07-27

Under mars månad genomför Kulturen i Lund en arkeologisk förundersökning i kvarteret Paradis. Nu bjuder Akademiska Hus in Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens medarbetare i kvarteret för att ta del av resultaten. När: 23 mars kl 16-17 Var: Samling vid Socialhögskolan ingång, Allhelgona kyrkogata 8. Anmälan: Du måste föranmäla dig till rundvandringen för att få en plats. 30 platser, först till kvarn.

https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/inbjudan-presentation-av-den-arkeologiska-forundersokningen-i-kvarteret-paradis - 2026-07-27

Ett trettiotal personer deltog när Kulturens arkeologer en solig marseftermiddag presenterade sina fynd från den arkeologiska förundersökningen av den norra parkeringen i kvarteret Paradis. Förundersökningen har genomförts inför det planerade uppförandet av en ny byggnad på parkeringen – fakultetens nya Centrum för Samhällsvetenskap. Där vi idag har parkering fanns en gång i tiden en stadsvall och

https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/vad-doljer-sig-under-parkeringen-i-kvarteret-paradis - 2026-07-27

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. I Lokaltidningen Lund går det att läsa 26 oktober 2016  Nyligen tilldelas Odeum och dess director musices Patrik Andersson Lunds universitetshistoriska sällskaps pris på 25 000 kronor.  Årets mottagare får priset med motiveringen ”för den stora betydelse Odeum genom sitt studentburna musicerande har för Lunds univer

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/universitetshistoriskt-pris-till-odeum - 2026-07-27

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Wilhelm Theodor Gnosspelius, född i Stockholm 28 december 1809 och avliden i Lund 13 augusti 1887, var violinist, organist, dirigent, musikorganisatör och tonsättare. Han var verksam i Stockholm från 1822, i Linköping från 1843 och i Lund från 1858. Gnosspelius skrev musik i klassisk-romantisk stil, främst tillfälli

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lar-dig-mer-om-wilhelm-gnosspelius-en-av-odeums-director-musices - 2026-07-27